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This tutorial was written by an external contributor. APIs are frequent targets for bad actors since they expose data and functionality. Securing them while maintaining usability is often one of the most challenging and time-consuming parts of API development. OAuth 2.0 and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) help make these …
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GitHub Copilot CLI for .NET workflows: configure C# conventions, prompt ASP.NET Core changes, run tests, review diffs, and commit safely today, with guardrails. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/29/github-copilot-cli-for-net-developers-real-workflows-on-a-c-codebase
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In this post I describe the Fetch Metadata HTTP headers like Sec-Fetch-Site and Sec-Fetch-Mode which give information to a server about the context of a request Link to article: https://andrewlock.net/understanding-the-fetch-metadata-http-headers-sec-fetch-site-and-friends/
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The author critiques Buffer, a social media scheduling tool, after a transition from Twitter to Bluesky due to increased user friction. Key issues include inefficient scheduling interfaces, lack of character limit warnings during composition, and inadequate support for mentions and hashtags. The author expresses a need …
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) C# SDK has reached v2.0, implementing the 2026-07-28 revision of the MCP specification. It's the largest revision of the protocol since it launched. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-v20-of-the-official-mcp-csharp-sdk
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How to set up OpenTelemetry logging .NET using ILogger -- structured log export, trace context correlation, OTLP export, and practical C# examples. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/28/opentelemetry-logging-net-ilogger-integration-and-structured-log-export
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) published its 2026-07-28 specification, the largest revision since launch: MCP is now stateless, with a governed extensions system and hardened authorization. Learn what changed and how to enable the new version on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway with a single UpdateGateway call. Link …
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Learn how to architect and deploy a production-ready multi-agent AI system using LangGraph for workflow orchestration and Strands for agent reasoning on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through a market surveillance example with state-driven orchestration, checkpoint-based recovery, and AgentCore memory and …
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A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/scientific-computing-agentic-ai
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A recent conversation started (as many interesting conversations do) with a simple question: "Why is MSIX secure?" MSIX includes multiple layers of protection designed to defend against both accidental damage and malicious tampering. But as with all good security solutions, it's not the individual elements so …
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The best AI assistance is the kind you can steer, understand, and rely on. The July update is built around all three. There's a new Agent (Preview) in Copilot Chat, built on the same GitHub Copilot SDK that powers the GitHub Copilot CLI, that gets more done with less back-and Link to article: …
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Great code has a long memory. The fix you shipped last quarter, the refactor that touched a dozen files, the one-line change that explained why something works the way it does — it's all there in your commit history. The hard part has always been finding it. Today, we're excited to announce that Commit Search is …
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Many enterprises still maintain legacy Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) applications built on .NET Framework. While these applications continue to serve business needs, organizations face growing challenges: a shrinking VB.NET developer talent pool, limited modern tooling support, and a difficult path to cross-platform .NET …
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Part 3 of a series where we take public “token saver” add-ons for coding agents and run the same paired A/B benchmark against each of them. Part 1 was the caveman skill (advertised −65%, measured −8.5%). Part 2 was rtk (advertised −60–90%, measured +7.6%). We ran 80 paired tasks to test the ponytail skill for […] Link …
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SQL database projects are a fundamental tool for keeping your database in source control, tracking changes and collaborating on quickly evolving database needs. Not to be forgotten, their superpower is being able to dynamically generate deployment scripts that match the dec Link to article: …
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Clean architecture vs modular monolith in C# -- understand the key differences, when each applies, and why combining them is often the most powerful approach for .NET developers. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/28/clean-architecture-vs-modular-monolith-in-c-whats-the-difference
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Learn how AI coding agents can expose credentials in supply chain attacks and how Docker Sandboxes keep secrets out of an agent's reach. Link to article: https://www.docker.com/blog/coding-agent-horror-stories-the-29-million-secret-problem/
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CI/CD is changing rapidly. Or is it?.. AI-assisted development is increasing the volume of code being written, software systems are becoming more distributed, and engineering teams are continuously rethinking how they build, test, and ship applications. At the same time, organizations are modernizing their CI/CD …
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Your agents can now discover and load Agent Skills directly from a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Instead of shipping every skill inside your application or copying skill folders into each deployment, you point an agent at an MCP server and it pulls the skills it needs on demand. A central team can p Link to …
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TL;DR KotlinLLM is now public. It’s a research prototype for delegating runtime logic to an LLM from Kotlin code. Instead of calling an LLM on every request or running a separate agent, you can write an explicit Kotlin call. Its body is generated Kotlin source code, and that code is updated as your application hits […] …
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